> Combined with various less-than-free licenses, installing one huge blob of > firmware is problematic for many users, also from a security point of view.
How does having additional firmware installed affect security at all? Firmware is only loaded when specifically requested by a loaded driver that needs to use it, and only if that driver is actually in use. That's like saying a file that can only be written to by root, only normally read when it's specifically needed, and if for some stupid reason is executed by an unprivileged process will just result in a crash, affects security (hint: I just described firmware). -Doug
